Rachel Reeves lied on her CV was not an “Economist”

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AIBU - it’s OK to lie to get ahead

AINBU - it’s bad RReeves very Publicly lied about her prior work. We are right to feel annoyed by this lie.

saw this headline and am feeling really disappointed. Think Rachel Reeves needs to tell public exactly her job title.
She changed job title from Economist, to “Retail Banking”
An Economist at a Bank, is a clear and specific job, it’s a economic research position. A good experience for her current position.

”Retail Banking” - is not a job title … she could have been doing anything in a branch from Bank Teller, to Branch manager, or working in back office operations putting bank notes in the plastic bags or in HR.

She was in retail banking is that the story? I haven't followed this

She does have an issue with the recent growth figures stagnating so that might be more of a problem if she can't turn that around

So politicians can say anything in the run up to the election and as long as it isn’t in their manifesto it doesn’t count?

Do any? Or should there be very well qualified senior civil servants who are the economists who can give them the options and tell them the impact of their political choices on the economy?

I mean, Trumps just appointed a tv host to his senior team. I’m not sure career history really matters when you’re an MP anyway. Just sounds like you’re looking for reasons to be riled by Labour really.

The city? Why should anyone concerned with running a country listen to the financial sector? They had their chance, with market deregulation and massive expansion and failed miserably. They didn't generate the levels of public investment that we needed for growth, crashed the global financial markets in 2008? and the fact we had to then bail them out, at public expense, is why we got austerity in the first place.

It’s not just in the Daily Mail!

The point is that Reeves misrepresented her experience.

What would you have liked her to do? Join as a graduate and immediately become governor? It shows she was doing a relevant job and getting appropriate experience.

Funny how you forgot to mention that she has a Master's degree in Economics from the LSE… but why let any actual facts get in the way of your prejudices.

Not if you count an MSc in the subject from a world leading institute in the field as a qualification. From my perspective as an academic that is ample in itself. Never mind that Economist is not a protected designation, means different things to different people, and has not been negated by the update, which could be based on any number of things.

@HonoraBridge what do you think of Margaret Thatcher’s claims to have been a scientist, based on her UG degree in Chemistry (like RR’s PPE degree, from Oxford) and her work for an ice cream manufacturer?

What a cruel right wing thing to write. She is caring and kind as far as I can see and wants society to improve. How about you? What are you doing?

Why not go the distance and come out with ‘be kind’.

Caring and kind lol. What is this? The Disney channel?

So now the attribute required for running the country’s finances is that you need to be caring and kind. Never mind competent. Even if rainbows and unicorns was the requirement, how do you she is caring and kind? Are you her mother?

Honestly, the country is f’d. when caring and kind is what people think is the overarching requirement to run the government.

Not misrepresent her experience in such a way that she subsequently feels it necessary to have to correct her linked in profile.

She is caring and kind as far as I can see

I take it you are not a low income pensioner who has just lost their winter fuel allowance.

Caring and kind? How exactly (not that these qualities are remotely pertinent to being a good Chancellor)

The markets have reacted negatively to the budget. Business leaders are roundly condemning the budget. And growth figures released yesterday show a sharp slowdown, when the numbers are revised, the country will actually be in decline.

There you have it. That’s how good she is. But at least she is a woman, right? And caring and kind apparently. Who knew.

Cue the predictable responses about tories blah blah, Liz Truss blah, Kwasi blah blah blah. Because it’s cold comfort and cancels out everything that is being done by a chancellor who seems to have accidentally fallen into no.11.

@Ytcsghisn How about giving us some facts rather than rumours?

On what factual grounds do you classify RR as a Socialist? As bad at her previous jobs? Again, facts please.

And factually, which party has been in power for the last 14 years while the British economy has been stagnating, including languishing at the bottom if the G7 growth table since the pandemic? Which hapless PM and Chancellor crashed the pound just a couple of years ago?

Your much vaunted wealth creation hadn’t done the country has a whole a bloody bit of good.

Yes, because happily facts trump bias

Why are you unprepared to give the woman a chance? Gonna hit ya where it hurts?

Our taxes will undoubtedly continue to increase, but that’s the price of a more just and more pleasant society. No one is keeping you here by force.

Saw a big banner on the M40 today going towards Oxfordshire about Rachel Thieves as they called her. Don't remember the words but It made me laugh. How much she is hated.

@Ytcsghisn "Also as the rumours go, she was pretty crap while she was there. "

Sources, please?

I don’t hate her. And it’s not her job to be liked.
What I do dislike, really quite a lot, is the immature and frankly stupid making up, or finding hilarious, of ‘funny’ puns on people's names. I automatically discount anything else said by the people who like them so much.

The press and the Tories have to be held to account here and one or two posters on MN too.
All they did is make up total fabrications on what the budget would bring, we had numerous headlines on Council Tax increases, removal of single person discount, the end of pension tax relief, IHT threshold would go .... it was non stop, many threads on here too by many new posters.

This of course made the general public wary.

If growth has faltered its primarily down to this & the policies of the last Govt.... the budget was just 2 weeks ago, not enough time to say one way or another what it has achieved.

languishing at the bottom if the G7 growth table

can you link me to this? I am having trouble finding information that reflects this statement. Not at the bottom here:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370599/g7-country-gdp-growth/

Oh come on!